there is a little problem about the british charts! what are the official ones? some sources say pussycat dolls was a new entry at the top when it charted at no one, whil other sources see this song make a huge jump to reach the pole position in its second week in the top!

experience wrote:there is a little problem about the british charts! what are the official ones? some sources say pussycat dolls was a new entry at the top when it charted at no one, whil other sources see this song make a huge jump to reach the pole position in its second week in the top!

It's not a problem and it's the same official chart for everyone. The only difference is that in one side sites speak about TOP 40 (so last week PCD enter at #1) and in an other side sites speak about TOP 75 or TOP 250 and here PCD enter in chart one week before at #44.

experience wrote:there is a little problem about the british charts! what are the official ones? some sources say pussycat dolls was a new entry at the top when it charted at no one, whil other sources see this song make a huge jump to reach the pole position in its second week in the top!

The PCD were at #44 on a mixture of import sales and downloads. A week later the record charted at #1 on a domestic (UK) release and downloads. Chart rules don't normally allow for imports and domestic releases to have sales combined and they are treated as seperate releases. Hence the import version vanished from the chart and the UK release was classed as a new entry. Hanboo treats both versions as the same for database purposes, and shows the record as moving 44-1 but officially the song was at #44 one week on import at at #1 as a new entry the following week as a UK release.

In my view the chart compilers should just amalgamate all sales and class the record as a climber (especially as these days downloads are included once there is a physical release, whether that release is the UK version or an import).

No, no, not 478 weeks! Let me explain! According to data taken from CoolClarity chart forum the catalogue number refers to re-mastered 2CD edition, released in 2004. It has totally 8 weeks on the chart. It seems the album was a new-entry some time lately!
Original edition (well, at least late 90s one) was definitely linked with the 1977 original. The OCC counts the TOP200 data from 1994 on, right? So they would just add the weeks if there was a reason. But they didn't! So, technically it is NOT the same album.The reason is simple. According to the official rules, if the album has additional CD with new material (not remixes, for example) it cannot be linked with the original entry. So, if you want it to take it precisely, it is a NEW ENTRY.
A note to Han. I respect your DB methodology and then assume you don't care about "problems" like these?

experience wrote:there is a little problem about the british charts! what are the official ones? some sources say pussycat dolls was a new entry at the top when it charted at no one, whil other sources see this song make a huge jump to reach the pole position in its second week in the top!

According to the official chart rules it was a new entry. All the downloads were just abruptly relocated and attached to the domestic (ie. UK's) release. The first week saw all the downloads attached to import sales. End of story...
Of course, everyone is entitled to making up his own chart rules. As (quite successfully) Han did!